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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land People often complain that there’s an overabundance of zombie-based video games, or that zombies are the new bacon, overindulged in to the point of nausea. Judging by pieces like Deviant artist Dantemustdie00′s “Sonic Zombies”, perhaps we’re just injecting the undead into the wrong titles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JpksyojwqzE#at=18 The unpoetically named “GLSL Shader Mod” doesn’t sound like the sort of thing that would create such lysergic effects, but watching the Minecraft world bend and warp back so that the horizon touches its own toes is enough to make my spine crawl with sympathetic memory. [via Rock Blotter Shotgun]
[This essay was given as a talk at SUNY Buffalo, 28 January 2010, the day after Howard Zinn's death. I have left the text unaltered, to better reflect the spirit of the talk.]
